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Scapegoats3 quotes
For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. — Narrator (Twilight Zone) · 1960They've got a murder they don't know what to do with. They need a whipping boy. — Det. Virgil Tibbs · 1967Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "victims". — Susan Sontag · 1989AIDS1 quote
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "victims". — Susan Sontag · 1989Red Scare1 quote
For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. — Narrator (Twilight Zone) · 1960